In the first place it encouraged a certain folie de grandeur in terms of my literary aspirations and my estimation of my own talent. |
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With their silvery outlines and flashes of colour, the drawings have a sublime grandeur. |
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I found the new rectory across the road, less than half the size, not a tenth of the grandeur and not even displaying a bit of pargeting. |
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The blend of pathos and grandeur in the image might even be said to do justice to its subject. |
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The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic. |
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It is really the exterior shots and fight sequences which give the film its scope and grandeur. |
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Its top-notch dining, elegantly restored 1920s-era grandeur, and first-class service earn raves from business travelers. |
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It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death. |
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The very first episode shows a Europe immersed in the grandeur of pomp and circumstance. |
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Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project. |
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In old age he was taken by folie de grandeur and bankrupted himself with ventures. |
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This is not only a folie de grandeur, given that it will be American soldiers who will end up doing the fighting. |
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The Scots wanted simple and plain prayer services while the new prayer book required more ritual and grandeur. |
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He has fallen into a folie de grandeur, however, if he believes we can will a gallon of gas into our tank or a loaf of bread onto our table. |
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The grandeur of pre-Columbian Indian culture was incorporated into the national imagery. |
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The grandeur of the old city is matched by the glitziness of modern Lahore. |
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The hotel is just a stone's throw from the Union Buildings which can be seen in their majestic grandeur from most rooms. |
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Amid the austere grandeur of Highclere Castle, it was an unprecedented spectacle. |
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He had travelled frequently in southern England but he had never before seen scenery of rugged grandeur. |
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The hall of the house is impressive with two marble pillars giving an instant impression of grandeur. |
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The developers are determined to keep the picturesque grounds intact and the hospital's grandeur appearance. |
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I was still rather impressed by the grandeur and scale of Lambdeth Central. |
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It was evident that the period grandeur of the Museum buildings greatly impressed the youngsters. |
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Cuba and her people have a vibrant and passionate past and one that echoes around the fading grandeur of her elegant architecture. |
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Louis XIV's obsession with grandeur expanded to other aspects of life, including art. |
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The fading grandeur of its shops and its Victorian public buildings stands testimony to a golden past but a very uncertain future. |
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Cameras lay forgotten for in many cases, nothing could capture the sheer grandeur and depth of the landscape. |
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Many mosques are there and they give an impression of the grandeur of architecture. |
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Flags waved and the rain held as thousands of people enjoyed the concert and fireworks in front of the lake and grandeur of Bowood House. |
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He was impressed by its grandeur and the hospitality of the temple authorities. |
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The West Indian islands became the hub of the British Empire, of immense importance to the grandeur and prosperity of England. |
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It has all the pomp and grandeur of a Roman general marching into war with his troops. |
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And he really enjoyed the glory and grandeur, you know, of being treated like a head of state. |
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What makes his work memorable is this ability to observe people as they exhibited all their grandeur and flaws. |
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It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy. |
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Choose between smallness and grandeur, between nothingness and immortality, between him and me! |
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Today, with the Warsaw Pact dead, France can safely make its reach for grandeur. |
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Moreover their capital was famous as a City of Palaces, able to rival in grandeur and magnificence anything in South Asia. |
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In 1703, at the age of twenty-two, Beatrice sought to restore the grandeur of the Kongo. |
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The programme concluded with Mozart's Symphony No. 41, the socalled Jupiter symphony, whose Olympian grandeur justifies its name. |
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The Catalinas, in all of their grandeur, are going through that process of deformation right now. |
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He's been up it and on my roof repointing the chimney and removing a rogue bush that's got ideas of grandeur. |
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This example of classic tetra conch design with all its miniature size, strikes the viewers with its grandeur and integrity. |
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Balanced sonorities and evenness of metre direct listeners on a course of undiminishing grandeur that leads naturally to calmness in repose. |
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Perhaps if the girl gives herself airs of grandeur, we should encourage her in her ambitions to become the proper lady. |
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The brightness from the lamps adds splendor and grandeur to the whole show. |
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Castings with a pedestal of ebony or mahogany add grandeur to the commission. |
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Black, rugged mountains towered majestically at the horizon, adding savage grandeur to the solemnity of the landscape. |
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Delhi is a city of magnificence and desolation, grandeur and history, all seeped in red and purple. |
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To see these now, even in decayed grandeur, is a heart-rendingly romantic sight. |
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Blake somehow understands, that his sonorousness is a final, sad crumbling of former grandeur. |
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Those songs are so full of life and spirit here, it's impossible not to be swept up in their grandeur and occasional sadness and desolation. |
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She covers this with deft skill and a versatile voice that can sweetly caress or swoop with camp theatrical grandeur. |
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There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave. |
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This palace of kings is based on the grandeur and augustness of Roman imperial empire. |
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But the truth is the castle has a grandeur that surpasses its tartan tweeness. |
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Namibia's landscape has a savage grandeur unlike that of any other African country. |
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The true principles of national glory are opened by the grandeur of the minds of these assertors of political freedom. |
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Karajan's emphases, apart from making music of celestial beauty, are on the opposite poles of intimacy and grandeur. |
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Flying over and through the Grand Canyon offers a unique perspective of its true grandeur. |
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Our first glimpse of the underwater world, implied through a perspective of giant rings, has a Wagnerian grandeur. |
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South of Crete are farms and farmers, to the north lies the metropolitan area in all its skyscraping grandeur. |
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Henry I was clearly not as impressed by Benedictine abbots and their temporal grandeur as his father had been. |
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Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth. |
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If it is style, elegance and grandeur you are after then this five-bed detached property may be the home for you. |
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A step below this grandeur are restaurants that middle-class Muscovites enjoy on special occasions. |
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The wrought-iron entrance gates and meandering drive reflect the sense of romance and grandeur that characterized the Roaring Twenties. |
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Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work. |
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In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur. |
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But there is also a meatiness, a tenacity of grip, and, finally, a grandeur, which this production captures. |
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It marries well with the extreme storytelling and characterisation to give the film a flavour of operatic grandeur. |
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In the paranoid form of this disorder, they develop delusions of persecution or personal grandeur. |
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The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys. |
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Their subject is always the tragic fate of empire when pitted against the sublimity and grandeur of nature. |
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I beached it in a small bay and clambered to a rocky promontory to admire the surrounding grandeur and check my progress. |
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Thankfully, during week one of the playoffs, it was revealed that all of my friends had fallen prey to similar delusions of grandeur. |
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The island's only stately home is a testament to the grandeur of days gone by. |
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There is faded grandeur in its crumbling, mouldy mansions with their jalousie-fronted windows, porches and verandas. |
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As if having a landscape of sugarloaf peaks, jungle and old colonial grandeur were not enough, Principe's beaches are, well, perfect. |
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These are neurotically emotional outbursts and chemically induced sensations of grandeur and paranoia. |
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There is something quite magical in this unprecedented event, when you see the sunken ship for the first time, still with an air of grandeur. |
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Browns is for those who prefer their countryside retreat served up with urban chic rather than ancestral grandeur. |
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This is an unashamedly bombastic work but one cannot help being moved by the grandeur and sublime beauty of the piece. |
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They are pictorially beautiful, but I think they lacked the sense of the sublime grandeur that they were supposed to evoke. |
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Rather, the American industrial and technological scene is endowed with an air of epic grandeur. |
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. |
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Outing those with delusions of grandeur, paranoia, and entitlement is a tough job, but somebody's done a great job of it. |
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His first Swiss landscapes focused on the grandeur and bleakness of the mountains. |
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Equally, if Stringer was lost for any period of time then you could park any notions of grandeur until he returned. |
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There are three possible sources of finance for a garden to match my delusions of grandeur. |
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The grandeur of the architecture has faded only slightly from the neglect of the communist years. |
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He still clings stubbornly to his belief in the omnipotence of science and the grandeur of human ambition. |
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The second anniversary promises to be more private, more reflective and without the ceremonial grandeur and fiery political speeches. |
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Touting the park's scenic grandeur might convince Virginians to favor the park. |
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The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain. |
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He began the democratisation of grandeur, a process that continued through the 19th century. |
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Three million acres of pristine unspoiled natural grandeur means that one soon runs out of superlatives. |
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The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur. |
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As a schoolboy he had regularly passed the terrace and admired the houses' style and rundown grandeur. |
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This house is history personified with all its grandeur, mysteries and unravelled secrets. |
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While the Grand Canyon and Zion have an almost divine grandeur, Bryce feels more mercurial. |
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Amid ever-shifting European borders, Prague has retained the grandeur of being head of the Hapsberg Empire in the middle of the 16th century. |
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That place with such grandeur and splendor is enough to make me confused into thinking that I were walking on the street in Paris or in New York. |
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There's no doubting that the might and grandeur of big mountains can make you feel very humble. |
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At times, Coughlin has exhibited what might be interpreted as delusions of grandeur. |
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The chunky frames are designed to reflect the Victorian grandeur of the resort, while the baubles lining the slats represent the bright lights. |
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Sirk's is a popular cinema fashioned with exquisite taste during what we now know as the twilight of Hollywood's self-enclosed grandeur. |
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The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot. |
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An air of neglect hung over the whole complex, almost completely masking the grandeur of the original plan. |
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Is it their strangeness or their sheer folie de grandeur which attracts me to them? |
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Filled with pathos and grandeur, they demand to be seen in the flesh. |
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Russian worldview is almost entirely based on myths and combines delusions of grandeur with paranoia. |
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In his book you'll read about his week in a travel agency, where, on his first day, he was conned into buying birthday lunch for a boss with serious delusions of grandeur. |
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If you have delusions of grandeur and fancy yourself to be intellectually superior, go on and impress those who are even more challenged than you are. |
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The purpose of that story was to demonstrate that a well-known and well-respected public figure was actually nothing more than a mindless hack with delusions of grandeur. |
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Similarly, the increased expenditure on thoroughbred horses for hunting saw a substantial rise in the grandeur and expense laid out on stables from the late 18th century. |
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It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around. |
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This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days. |
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Also, the imposing grandeur of classical architecture, especially buildings based on prototypes from imperial Rome, suited the nationalist temper of the times. |
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Dinerstein believes bears, wolves, bison, and elk are the way to go if the goal is to restore the grandeur of the Pleistocene to the Great Plains. |
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To many of his compatriots, this intransigent defender of French grandeur saved the honor of the nation during World War II and restored its institutions and status. |
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He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty. |
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He used the grandeur of a decorative, classicizing composition but did not archaize the scene by putting the women in identifiably regional clothing. |
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The Jurassic grandeur of the Otway National Park soon enfolded the road, the car, and much of the daylight, within a leafy tunnel of mountain ash, gum, beech and ferns. |
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With all its grandeur, the place was blanketed in an age-old sorrow. |
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With his quiet colours he moderates the dazzle and grandeur found in the still-life pictures of his contemporary, which are as bright as heraldic blazonings. |
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Since it was the first time back-projection had been employed at a concert, all the footage is close-up and the viewer never truly sees the scope and grandeur of these shows. |
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When Diocletian divided authority between the tetrarchs, each of them established a capital in a different region of the empire and embellished it with appropriate grandeur. |
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The soprano blew her audiences away by flawlessly mixing her registers, phrasing with magisterial grandeur, and nuancing her voice with expressive color. |
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But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation. |
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Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day. |
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The majestic outer sections reflect an unashamedly Beethovenian grandeur. |
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There was not even time for his book to be set before the reading public before the poet, poetry editor, and translator was asserting its imperishable grandeur. |
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Domed ceilings, Georgian columns and plunging chandeliers exude palatial grandeur, an impression enhanced by the amount of jewellery paraded by Glasgow's glitterati. |
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On the contrary, Bacon's view of the hopelessness of the human condition precluded the aspiration to anything as uncomplicatedly elevated or ennobling as grandeur. |
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Its grandeur fabricates a challenge to the indeterminateness of fate, even more so its finality, by preserving love and hope as viable antidotes to inevitable ends. |
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Rizzo himself as usual, was sitting at a table by himself, wolfing his pizza in solitary grandeur. |
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In much the same way Kathakali eclipses other dance forms by its grandeur, Koman shadows all other personae, even though they are woven in a style combining ease and elan. |
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They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur. |
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During his free time, he traveled around in the area, made the acquaintance of other Sorbian students in Leipzig, and learned about the grandeur of his Slavic heritage. |
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It divests him of a capacity for grandeur we want our leaders to possess. |
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Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty. |
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Expertly scaled, the architecture balances intimacy with grandeur. |
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The detached villa sits within mature private gardens approached through a pillared entrance way, which immediately gives the property a sense of grandeur. |
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Critique, elegant confusion, and folie de grandeur are inherently interesting, and in a way you don't want the mystique dispelled by too many details. |
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Yet the advent of commercialism has created a series of games which sound more like tongue-twisters concocted by a five-year-old than occasions of genuine sporting grandeur. |
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Hopefully, it was not a harbinger of more delusional folie de grandeur. |
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There is a sense of grandeur in the idea that paying heavily is a means of advancing knowledge. |
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In these works of tragic grandeur and flamboyant Romanticism, some sparkling scherzo movements and brilliant finales bring sharp contrasts of mood. |
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The irony is that hard-up Paddy's is flush with character, while the ersatz grandeur of malls and the like offer a poorer shopping experience by far. |
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However, such delusions of grandeur are not confined to crackpot monarchs. |
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And he just kept doing it with a persistence that is a grandeur. |
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Additionally, the emphasis that Baroque art placed on grandeur is seen as Absolutist in nature. |
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The grandeur intoxication prompts the customary good natured obtrusion of the practice of nicotinism in to the presence of others. |
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The Billiard Room, Queen's Dining Room, and the Drawing Room on the ground floor all express grandeur. |
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Geoffrey's description in turn drew on an already established tradition in Welsh oral tradition of the grandeur of Arthur's court. |
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It also protects the individual against egotism and delusions of grandeur. |
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However, neither its grandeur nor its scale is a guarantor of its apodicticity. |
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Such a church is grand because it is a cathedral, rather than it being designated a cathedral because of its grandeur. |
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The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence. |
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By 1672, however, this design seemed too modest, and Wren met his critics by producing a design of spectacular grandeur. |
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The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise. |
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They call it folie de grandeur, the self-deluding sense of importance that makes peacocks out of pigeons. |
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But to imply, as Gardiner does, that it took artistic folie de grandeur to fall out with Lesley Waddington is capricious. |
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The politicians who signed up to this adventure in vanity never paid the price for their folie de grandeur. |
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Corbin wishes to make Pinagot part of the memory of the 19th century, which can sound like a folie de grandeur. |
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However, as more hotels were built in the south part of the bay, the old hotels of the 1950s lost their grandeur. |
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During the 19th century, Samuel Sarphati devised a plan based on the grandeur of Paris and London at that time. |
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For all the grandeur of the house, the bar and bistro, where we decided to have Sunday lunch, are chintzily relaxing and informal, almost pubby. |
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There's no comparison in grandeur between such pip-squeak arcs and the mighty solar prominences that Bellan is trying to replicate. |
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Romeo and Juliet counted on Prokofiev's lush, emotionally manipulative score and bargain-basement grandeur to seduce new dancegoers. |
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Let us spend 210 million sesterces on building a new one that will be a temple more in keeping with the grandeur of the sport. |
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Manic episodes, however, are characterized by restlessness, euphoria, and delusions of grandeur. |
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And roads lined with buildings of a grandeur that's sadly lacking in Birmingham after the vandalistic re-development of the post-war decades. |
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Imposing stone columns stand sentry at the front of the house giving it an instant air of grandeur. |
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This repetition is not redundant, but adds an air of continuity only befitting the story's scale and grandeur. |
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Neptune sliding out of Pisces takes your delusions of grandeur with it. |
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The beauty and grandeur of the roads might tempt us to believe that any Roman citizen could use them for free, but this was not the case. |
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In spite of the grandeur, the Cathedral was tinged with a certain eeriness. |
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Colourful costume dramas are getting bigger terms of grandeur epics emerge as sureshot hits among couch potatoes. |
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Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture. |
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Mountbatten who accused him of folie de grandeur dismissed the idea of taking over the country as rank treason and told King to get out when he put it to him. |
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No longer will we have to suffer the traumas of a disengaged people, the professor can guarantee a cure fo r tantrums, apoplexies and feelings of grandeur. |
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The five-star Dwarika's Hotel is situated in Battisputali, a stone's throw from the airport,and takes its inspiration from the architectural grandeur of Newari royal palaces. |
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For Barry, as for Wilkins, a major consideration was increasing the visual impact of the National Gallery, which had been widely criticised for its lack of grandeur. |
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But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed. |
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Isolationists abandoned the cosmopolitanism of Hamilton, perhaps America's greatest conservative, for a populistic nativism suspicious of worldly grandeur. |
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Modern cathedrals frequently lack the grandeur of those of the Medieval and Renaissance times, having more focus on the functional aspect of a place of worship. |
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He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. |
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The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. |
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By the time they adjourned their three-day special session Wednesday, the Legislature had illustrated both the grubbiness and the grandeur of lawmaking. |
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Simply by being the largest optical telescope ever placed above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded spectacular images of cosmic grandeur. |
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